Welcome to our Curriculum21 Wiki!

We're using this space to create the content for our Curriculum21 Social Learning Communities.

Once you give us content, Steve & Earl will load it onto your own Curriculum21 Wiki page. You can also go directly to your own personal Curriculum21 Wiki page, hit the "Edit" key, and make your own changes. Type, copy & paste, and edit right over your earlier content information. Don't worry. This Wiki format automatically saves earlier versions, so we can always go back and see what the earlier versions had for information. (You can do this yourself. Just click on the "History" tab at the top of the page.) The rest of us can use the "Discussion" tab at the top of the page to post our comments, share thoughts and ideas, and engage you in the process of refining your content. We will take the "finished" content from this Wiki and use it to populate our initial versions of the Curriculum21 Social Learning Community Website.

Eventually, all of us will get training in how to do this directly... within weeks from now, and we'll be able to skip the step of building content through this Wiki. But, this Wiki may be useful as a training and integration step for others who we will want to become part of the content creation process in our Social Learning Community.

Use the help link at the top of the page, or contact Steve and get a quick tutorial online.

Community Type
- Community of Interest (CoI)
  - A community of interest is a community of people who share a common interest or passion. These people exchange ideas and thoughts about the given passion, but may come from multiple disciplines or domains of knowledge (i.e., teachers, administrators, students, etc.). Participation in a community of interest can be compelling, entertaining and create a ‘sticky’ community where people return frequently and remain for extended periods. Frequently, they cannot be easily defined by a particular geographical area.
- Community of Practice (CoP)
  - Community of practice, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, is a phrase that describes a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. The group can evolve naturally because of the member's common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created specifically with the goal of gaining knowledge related to their field. It is through the process of sharing information and experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, and have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally (Lave & Wenger 1991). CoPs can exist online, such as within discussion boards and newsgroups, or in real life, such as in a lunchroom at work, in a field setting, in a classroom or institution, or in professional workshop or conference settings.